Novel mass spectrometry based detection and identification of variants of rabies virus nucleoprotein in infected brain tissues.

• Main Authors: Matthew Reed (Author), Olga Stuchlik (Author), William C Carson (Author), Lillian Orciari (Author), Pamela A Yager (Author), Victoria Olson (Author), Yu Li (Author), Xianfu Wu (Author), Jan Pohl (Author), Panayampalli Subbian Satheshkumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Human rabies is an encephalitic disease transmitted by animals infected with lyssaviruses. The most common lyssavirus that causes human infection is rabies virus (RABV), the prototypic member of the genus. The incubation period of RABV in humans varies from few weeks to several months in some instan...